Black Excellence: L’Rain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Rain
Taja Cheek, known professionally as L’Rain, is an American experimentalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and curator known primarily as the lead vocalist and songwriter of her eponymous band.[1][2] L’Rain has been recognized for experimental music that draws on a vast number of traditions and genres[3][4] in a practice and aesthetic Cheek calls “approaching songness”.[1]
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/20/nx-s1-5931854/lrain-fata-morgana-review
An art-rock illusionist rewrites pop in her own image
Taja Cheek’s psychedelic project L’Rain has always been tagged as experimental. On ‘fata morgana,’ she asks what separates music like hers from the mainstream